Privacy Policy
Pulse Athletica · Last updated 18 October 2026
This policy explains what Pulse Athletica collects, why, and who else can see it. It covers the iPhone app and the accounts behind it.
Who we are
Pulse Athletica is operated by Alexander Maurice Cesarios, based in Victoria, Australia. For any privacy question, or to exercise the rights described below, contact support@pulseathletica.app.
What we collect
| Category | What it is | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Account | Email address, and a password unless you sign in with Apple. Optionally a display name and a profile photo. | To create your account, sign you in, and address you by name. |
| Profile | Sex, date of birth, height, activity level, training goal, unit preferences. | To calculate calorie and macronutrient targets, and to present measurements in your preferred units. |
| Health and body | Bodyweight, body-fat percentage, sleep duration and quality, step count, active energy, resting heart rate and heart rate variability. Entered by you, or read from Apple Health if you turn that on. | To show trends, calculate readiness, and adjust training guidance. |
| Training | Workouts, exercises, sets, repetitions, loads, perceived effort, session duration, cardio sessions, training programs you create or import. | To record your training and show progress over time. |
| Nutrition | Food entries and quantities, water intake. | To track intake against your targets. |
| Wellbeing | Daily check-ins covering sleep, energy, mood, soreness and stress, and the readiness score derived from them. | To produce a daily readiness score and adjust training suggestions. |
| Goals and weekly check-ins | Goals you set (a goal weight and date, sessions a week, steps, protein), and your weekly check-in answers about adherence, hunger, energy and training, with the summary and any suggested targets shown to you. | To show progress towards your goals and suggest nutrition targets from your own logged data. A suggestion only changes your targets if you apply it. |
| Cycle | If you turn cycle tracking on: the days you log, flow, mood, symptoms you pick and any note you add. | To show where you are in your cycle and place your own blood test results on the cycle day they were taken. |
| Medication | Entries you choose to add to the medication log: a name you type yourself, an amount, how it was taken, the injection site, how often, the date and time, and any notes you add. | To keep a record you can look back on, and to show you where the last injection went so sites can be rotated. |
| Pathology | Results you import from a blood test report: the marker name, the value and unit printed on the report, the reference range printed beside it, the collection date and the laboratory's name. The report itself is read on your phone and is not uploaded — see below. | To show your results over time against the ranges your own laboratory printed. |
| Usage | Eleven fixed events: finishing an onboarding step, creating an account, reaching the subscription screen and which tab sent you there, starting and completing a purchase and which plan, finishing a workout, importing a program, importing a nutrition plan, building a program, saving a blood test report, and turning reminders on. Each also carries the ordinary technical context any web request does — app version, device type, operating system — and nothing you have logged. | To see where people give up and which features are worth paying for. |
| Diagnostics | If the app crashes or a save fails: the error, where in the app it happened, the app version, and your account identifier. Never the contents of your logs. | To find and fix faults we would otherwise never hear about. |
| Subscription | Whether you have an active subscription, which plan, when the period ends, and which store it came from. | To unlock paid features. We never see your card details. |
Apple Health
If you enable Health sync, the app reads bodyweight, body-fat percentage, sleep, step count, active energy, resting heart rate and heart rate variability from Apple Health, and writes your completed workouts and any weight you log in the app back to it, so workouts count towards your activity rings and your weight sits alongside the rest of your health data. This is off unless you turn it on, and you can turn it off at any time in Profile, or revoke access entirely in the iOS Settings app.
Health data is used only to provide the features described in this policy. It is never used for advertising or marketing, never sold, and never disclosed to a third party for their own purposes.
Medication log
The medication log is optional and stays empty unless you use it. Everything in it is typed by you. The app holds no list of medicines or substances, does not look up or verify what you enter, and does not check it for correctness, dosage or interactions. The only suggestions it offers are names you have entered before, drawn from your own log.
These entries are health information, which Australian privacy law treats as sensitive information. We collect them only because you chose to enter them, and we use them for one purpose: showing your own log back to you. They are not used to profile you, to target anything at you, or to make decisions about you. They are never sold, never disclosed to anyone else for their own purposes, and never used for advertising or marketing.
Nothing in the medication log is written to Apple Health, and nothing from Apple Health is written into it — the two are kept separate. You can delete any entry at any time from the log itself, and deleting your account removes the entire log with it.
Pathology results
Importing a blood test report is optional and this section stays empty unless you use it. When you import one, the PDF or photograph is read on your phone: the text is extracted on the device, and the file itself is never uploaded to us or to anyone else. You then see every value that was recognised and choose which ones to keep. Only the values you confirm are saved.
What is saved is what your laboratory printed: the marker, the number, the unit, the reference range beside it, the collection date and the laboratory's name. The app shows those numbers back to you against that same printed range. It does not calculate its own ranges, does not decide what a result means, does not diagnose, and does not offer advice — whether a result matters is a conversation for the doctor who ordered the test.
Blood test results are health information, which Australian privacy law treats as sensitive information. We collect them only because you chose to import them, and we use them for one purpose: showing them back to you. They are never sold, never disclosed to anyone else for their own purposes, never used for advertising or marketing, and never written to Apple Health. You can delete any result at any time, and deleting your account removes them all.
Cycle tracking
Cycle tracking is optional. It is switched on by default only for profiles that record their sex as female, can be turned on or off by anyone in Profile → Health Details, and stays empty unless you log something. What you log is health information, which Australian privacy law treats as sensitive information. It is used for one purpose: showing your own cycle back to you. It is never sold, never disclosed to anyone else for their own purposes, never used for advertising or marketing, never written to Apple Health, and never counted in analytics. The hormone chart shows the typical pattern for a cycle, not measurements of you, and the app is not a contraceptive or diagnostic tool.
Sharing with your practitioner
Profile → Data & Sources can create a PDF summary or a CSV file of the sections and date range you choose. The file is created on your phone and handed to the iOS share sheet; it is not uploaded to us, and where it goes next is your choice. Cycle data is only included if you tick it.
What we count, and what we do not
We record eleven things, listed in the table above. Each is a fixed name with, at most, a step number, which tab you came from, or which plan you chose. There is no free-text field in any of them.
Nothing you log is counted. Not a weight, not a food entry, not a blood test result, not a medication name, not a set, not a note. The events say that a workout was finished, never which one; that a program was imported, never what was in it; that a blood test report was saved, never a single value on it. Screen taps are not recorded at all — the automatic capture that most analytics tools switch on by default is disabled here and cannot be turned on remotely, because on these screens the text of a button you tapped is a medication or a marker.
Alongside each event our analytics provider records the same technical context any web request carries — which version of the app, what kind of device, which operating system. That is what tells us a crash-free feature is broken on one iPhone model and fine on the rest.
A signed-out visitor is never given a profile. Once you are signed in, events are tied to the random identifier of your account and nothing else.
Crash and error reports
When the app hits a fault — a crash, or a save that does not land — it sends a report so we can fix it. The report contains the error itself, where in the app it happened, the app version, and the random identifier of your account, which is what tells one person hitting a fault forty times from forty people hitting it once.
It does not contain what you have logged. Requests and their contents, console output and your IP address are all excluded before anything is sent, and your email address and name are never attached.
Who else processes your data
We use a small number of service providers. They process data on our instructions only.
| Provider | What they receive | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Supabase | All account and app data described above | Database, authentication, file storage and server functions |
| Apple | Purchase and subscription transactions | In-app purchases. Apple, not us, handles payment |
| RevenueCat | Your account identifier and subscription status | To validate purchases and keep subscription state in sync |
| Your Move (ymove) | The identifier of an exercise only | To fetch demonstration videos. No account identifier or personal data is sent |
| Open Food Facts | A barcode you scan, or the words you search for when you look beyond the built-in food list. No account identifier or personal data is sent | To find nutrition figures for packaged and branded foods |
| Apple | Sign-in confirmation and your email | Only if you choose to sign in with Apple |
| Resend | Your email address, and the message we send you | To deliver account emails: confirming your address, and password resets |
| PostHog | The eleven usage events above, tied to your account's random identifier | Product analytics — where people give up, and what a subscription is worth |
| Sentry | Crash and error reports as described above — never the contents of your logs | To find and fix faults in the app |
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for advertising.
Where your data is held
Data is stored on infrastructure operated by our providers, which may be located outside Australia, including in the United States and the European Union. We take reasonable steps to ensure it is handled consistently with this policy wherever it is processed.
How long we keep it
We keep your data while your account exists. When you delete your account, your data is deleted along with it, as described below. Backups may persist for a short period before being overwritten in the ordinary course.
Deleting your account
You can delete your account from inside the app at any time: Profile → Delete account. This permanently removes your account and the data associated with it, including your training history, body measurements, nutrition logs, medication log, imported pathology results, cycle log, weekly check-ins, your profile and your profile photo. It cannot be undone.
Deleting your account does not cancel a subscription bought through Apple. Manage or cancel that in your App Store account settings.
Your rights
- Access the personal information we hold about you
- Correct anything inaccurate — most of it is editable in the app
- Delete your account and its data
- Ask how your information has been handled, or complain about how we handled it
Write to support@pulseathletica.app and we will respond within a reasonable period. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.
Children
Pulse Athletica is not intended for anyone under 16 — the app asks for a date of birth during setup and does not continue below that age. We do not knowingly collect their information. If you believe someone under 16 has given us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
Security
Data is encrypted in transit. Access to your records is enforced at the database level, so one account cannot read another's data. Where work can be done on your phone instead of on a server it is — reading a pathology report or a photographed training program happens entirely on the device, and the file is never uploaded. No system is perfectly secure, but we take reasonable steps to protect your information.
Changes
If we change this policy we will update the date at the top, and tell you in the app if the change is significant.